Scientific illiteracy is a matter of opinion
Loren Bahls writes a disturbing and incendiary column (Missoulian, Sunday, Dec. 6, âScientific illiteracy among voters poses a threatâ). I will respond as a professional scientist, Republican and evangelical Christian, and clarify what constitutes scientific illiteracy. Bahls describes lifeâs evolutionary journey as starting with a single cell and forming a branching tree with humans as a twig near the top. Nonsense. The fossil record alone contradicts the upward branching tree model and has done so for 30 years. Life on earth existed as single-cell organisms 4 billion years ag...
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